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Friday, September 27, 2013

Can you help identify this motorcycle sidecar?

Can you help identify the sidecar attached to this vintage Harley-Davidson? Its owner wants to know and is asking for help. He writes:

"My name is Carl from Germany and I´m desperate for information on the sidecar fitted to my 1946 WLC. Except for a frame number no manufacturer's plate is visible.

"I bought the WLC last spring in Göteborg, Sweden. The previous owner told me nothing about the sidecar, just that this WLC (Canadian model) was owed by his family since 1946.

The sidecar is well sprung.

"So far as I can see from the old papers the sidecar was fitted to the WLC in the early '50s, but the sidecar looks to me an older model from the 1930s. It's on the left, of course, since Sweden drove on the left side until the 1970s.

"The sidecar is metal clad all over.

There's a small cubby behind the seat.

"The English Swallow sidecar (the sidecar maker that became Jaguar cars) looks pretty close to mine.